Mabel always thought of herself as being incapable when it came to fixing things. she easily developed the habit of asking her husband, abel, to do even the simplest "fix-it" tasks, like changing a light bulb. then one day mabel got a flat tire on a country road. she managed to struggle through the process of changing the tire all on her own. from then on, she felt much more capable, and started to fix more things around the house. this best illustrates:

Accomodation

Explanation:

Accomodation refers to how we modify our schemas to actual make a space for the new information.

A schema refers to an organized set of knowledge that helps us understand everything around us.

This means we don't try to fit in the new information to our existing Information but we modify or adjust our schemas to actual allow this new information to take it effect on us.

Mabel was used to asking her husband to assist her with tough manual tasks( she probably thought she was incapable) until she was faced with a flat tire and had to change it on her own. Due to this experience she began to actual accomodate the fact that as a woman she can still do these jobs on her own , hence she adjusted her schema to actual believe she can also do these manual task and started doing them